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In kajalchokshi39/GetALetter: What the package does (short line)

GetALetter

Replicate 4.978 seconds

system.time(replicate(1000000, alphabet()))

Lapply 6.9974

start <- Sys.time() results <- unlist(lapply(1:1000000,alphabet)) end <- Sys.time() end - start

Parallel Processing Mclapply 7.725

start <- Sys.time() results <- unlist(mclapply(1:1000000,alphabet,mc.cores = 4)) end <- Sys.time() end - start

ParLapply

library(parallel) detectCores()

Calculate the number of cores

no_cores <- detectCores() - 1

Initiate cluster 2.219383955

cl <- makeCluster(no_cores)

start <- Sys.time() parLapply(cl, 1:1000000, alphabet) end <- Sys.time() end-start stopCluster(cl)

kajalchokshi39/GetALetter documentation built on Nov. 20, 2019, 12:03 a.m.